Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 150

Hlakanyana said: “Just try, grandmother; the river is close by, and perhaps you will be able to reach it.”

Who acts: Hlakanyana, river, you · What happens: say, try, be, reach · To what, where: grandmother, pot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hlakanyana, river, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hlakanyana	Hlakanyana	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
5	Just	just	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grandmother	punct
8	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 try	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 close	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 close	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 close	cop
13	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
14	by	by	ADP	_	13 close	fixed
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 able	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 able	cc
17	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	21 able	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 able	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 able	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 close	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 reach	mark
23	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reach	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 close	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hlakanyana			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try in a quote			grandmother		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Eventuality
3	is in a quote	present	the river		close property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	future	you		able, perhaps property	tree rules
5	reach in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	pot		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 150

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 150